You said "Write to a CD". I have noticed that some of the shortcuts in the "Send To" dialogue box will become corrupted...ARe you trying to "Send To" when you mean "Write to a CD"? Or are you using CD burning software such as Roxio or Nero and it is unable to burn a data or music CD? Are you having problems when using packet writing programs which allow you to copy and paste directly from the hard drive to the CD? Maybe all of these??
After placing a CD in the drive, can you open "My Computer", RIGHT click on the CD drive, then choose "Explore" and "see" the contents of the CD? If that's the case, then you can replace the current shortcut in the "Send To" list by creating a new shortcut to the drive, then dragging it to the "C\Documents and Settings\Yourusername\SendTo" folder.
Hope this helps and let us know more.
Grif
In the last six months I have upgraded my HP Pavilion 7855 from Me to WXP & added SP2. Since that time I can't write to a CD. It either tells me there is "no CD in the drive" when I know there is, or I get a failure message. The drive reads fine.
Any help?

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